Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-23
LAND OF PRONIsE.

| CATION Is very expensive.
ALAND OF PROMISE.
We market in Los Angeles, eighteen
miles distant. That is "A promising
town, and man with money can make
more profit there at present in real
estate speculation than anywhere in the
Union. The town hes increased its
population 10000 within five years. 1T
has now $1,000, and will 60 to 10000
before 1901 has expired. 1t is busy
human hive. Ven stand for hours in
line at the post-ofice seeking their
mail. so great is the increase in pOpua-
ton. The American the German. the
Scot, the Enelismnan, and tie irish
man are doing with I'll 'plliorJ what
they have already done Wuh $40 the
poor Indian. rhe mud novels OF the
Mcxicans, is wei rs their inmates, ar
fast disappearing before the "gat-up-
and-gct spirit of tine more energetic
nations. Still these Spanish Mcxicans
are good-natured and hosp.tabic pe0-
pie, notwithstanding thcirlndOlenccand
want of enterprise. Every night her,
is cold enough for blankets. There is
no sunstroke in this climate jdespite the
hot days., and have seen 10 m0squi-
toes, the air being too dry Flies ar
plentiful, hut not very animated, rs the
cool nights numb them 50 thoroughly
RAILROAD FACILITIES.
There are two milronGs through this
valley, and the Nouroyians nave built
the town NOW six months old ona part
of ucky EaidWiu's ranch, Just one miio
from the 81. Gabriel Valley rail
road The Southern Pacific passes
seven miles south Of MS, along
the southern ridge OF mountains. We
can ride to market in one hour by rail.
but twice week Is often enough T.
visittown. PASADENA is eight miles from
here (haii way h. Los Angelcs) This
is the place iat the Boston Raymond
cXcursionists visit once q month. | can
plainly see the Raymond Hotel from
my window. eight miles away. | can
drive down there in II one-horse Jump
cart il seyenty-fiye minutes level
and even is the valley straw road. The
town is thirteen years Old, and is the
centre of an extensive orange district
The fruit Is fair to the eye, but not OF
much consequence commercially. The
best fruit in this valley is two miles east
Of rs, at Duarte, region famous for
the " Washington orange" There Is
an incision and protubeance on each
orange Numerically opposite the stem.
4 lady from Washington, ID. c., stood
sponsor at its christening, and also
planted the first and only shrub in this
locality, which has proved the parent OF
the present countless progeny.
Go WEST, YOUNG MAN.
The negro Is not very plentiful here.
There are a few walters of that race,
but ] don't see them at other employ
ments. Walters heIe are paid $50 per
month and chambermaids the same;
so also are laundry girls and the China
men. We have no negroes at this hotel,
and there is only one darkey in town
with family-his wife and son They
work in the hotel-gaden, a half mile
away. They employ several Chinese,
and about oil of the white help are
Germans. Mechanics here receive from
Fl to s. per diem. Ii is n hard coun-
try, though, for clerks. If one cant
speak two or three languages he
is soon dispensed with. German, Span
ish, and English are the linguistic quail
fications OF a successful clerk, and then
his pay is small by comparison with
incomes. The latter quit
work at T. N. all the year round, and
need never be without work, and 80 it
will be with them for five years to come
in Southern California. Carpenters,
plumbers and steam-ftters
have the call in this country.
MARKET PIECES AND STOCK.
Turkeys are % cents per pound, live
weight; fowls, 81 to % per dozen
They don't thrive well in this country. |
The turkey, though, isasuccess. Nut.
ion is cents per pound by carsas.
md beef 12l cents The mutton is cool |
md the beef inferior, However, The |
after vii be improved by the new |